Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 455 Facing water but lacking water

   However, it is very important to open a temple like Guo Tai and Guo Linzong to teach ancient classics, but they don't know the most urgent thing.

  The most urgent thing now is to resume farming.

  Yong’an is slightly better, but the young crops are damaged, so it only needs to be replanted. Here in Pingyang, in addition to plowing the soil, there is another very important and urgent thing, which is to restore the canal irrigation...

  The water source closer to Pingyang County is Fenshui.

   It is said to be relatively close, but in fact there is a distance of more than 20 miles.

   Fei Qian let Ma Yue continue to deal with Baibo's related matters, and took Jia Qu and Huang Cheng along the dilapidated canal all the way east.

The canal runs along one side of the pipeline, and it can be seen that it was originally paved with bricks and stones, and the structure is relatively complete, but in some places, people trampled on beasts, and some were damaged and collapsed. Overgrown grass.

  A group of people followed the direction of the canal and slowly rode forward on the pipeline. This official road is relatively flat, of course, according to the standards of this era, or according to later generations, it is a gravel road without shell craters.

Fei Qian tapped with his fingers on the horseback, the road, the nearby field ridges with some traces, and the shrubs and stalks in the distance: "At this time, what will be compared with replanting?" Suitable?"

  Jia Qu blushed a little, and said, "This...my lord, Qu Wei has nothing to do with farming..."

   Feiqian nodded, and said: "It's okay, I didn't know it before, but I got a little understanding when I was studying in Jingxiang...Shuye, do you know?"

  Huang Cheng smiled and shook his head.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, in the early Qin Dynasty, millet was the main area in the northern land, and later because of the yield per mu of wheat... well, there were more crops in the field, so it was gradually replaced by wheat..." Fei Qian said while thinking, "South of the Dahe, Jingzhou , Yangzhou generation, because the land is moist and irrigation is convenient, so rice with higher yield is mainly used..."

...

  Perhaps with such a large piece of land, let it be messed with, it is estimated that it will be very happy to run wild in the fields...

   Feiqian suddenly thought of a husky that couldn't be held back for no reason, and quickly shook his head to get this unreliable picture out of his mind.

"The five grains of the Han Dynasty, millet, bean, hemp, wheat, and rice, are the most planted now, and there are also millet and sorghum that are very suitable for planting on this piece of land... Therefore, our piece of land is still more suitable for planting some. Cold-resistant and drought-resistant crops..." Fei Qian said slowly, now is not the age of nutrition, but the age of not being able to eat enough, so whatever has a high yield is suitable for planting...

  Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes…

   Has it spread to Southeast Asia? probably not yet...

But if it is in the Americas, it is really too far away. Although the Little Ice Age is coming soon, and the Bering Strait is estimated to be frozen, but this cotton without warmth, only relying on animal fur and oil, maybe ordinary Han people are There is absolutely no way to adapt, maybe relying on Dongyi, the fishing and hunting people in the northeast, Xianbei or Wuheng?

   If you go by water, it will be even more difficult. Only those gentry in Yangzhou who have some contacts with Nihong can build ocean-going ships...

  In later generations, Fei Qian remembered that there was an idle guy who made a calculation that he didn’t know what rules to follow. How many times the amount of information contained in an ordinary Times was that of the ancients?

forget.

   Actually, this is the gap...

Fei Qian thought quietly, many ancient people may know that there is a problem with the system and the rules, but they have no direction to solve it, and they don't know if there is an answer, so they can only be affected by mountains, seas, deserts, and cold soils. Enclose this piece of land and desperately increase these limited things. When you see something, you will pull it a little bit. Sitting under your buttocks, staring at this piece of land under your nose, you will not let go until you die...

  Don't blame the Chinese people of later generations, who were so miserable by the house, but also happy. In fact, this is an invisible gene that has been formed in the blood for thousands of years.

   Now Feiqian knows where the problem is. Although he is fully aware of the solution, at least his eyes are on the whole world, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America outside the continent...

Fei Qian got off his horse and walked a little towards the canal beside the road. He looked at the long canal not far away, extending from the Fenshui River. It was not deep, mostly muddy, with some depressions. Under the daily rain, the weeds in the canals still retain some moisture from below, which shows that at least the water-proof effect of stone bricks in these parts of the canals still exists.

   Feiqian looked at the land next to the official road, the ridges left by the former cultivated fields, this piece of land should have been the fiefdom of Pingyanghou.

  The government's water conservancy facilities are built to meet the irrigation needs of this field first...

"The water in Fenshui is sufficient, but if it is far away from this canal, the other fields..." Fei Qian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, "Look, these lands are actually not very far from the water source, but... lack of water .”

"In fact, the amount of water in Fenshui is enough to support the irrigation of the entire land, but because the canal is on the old Pingyanghou's field, it must be irrigated by the Pingyanghou in order to receive some excess water, and can One hundred percent, not only here in Pingyang, most of the government-built canals in the world will not get too much water..."

   "Liang Dao, do you know why?"

  Jia Qu thought for a while and said, "...Because too much water damaged the seedlings?"

"Everything close to the water source is mostly fiefdom or the land of a big family. These people's own fields are full of water. Who cares about not theirs? How much water can the fields of ordinary Guizhou leaders have? For For them, if ordinary farmers don’t reduce their production, how can anyone borrow money, how can someone be unable to survive and sell their land, and how can they expand their land area year by year?” Fei Qian sneered.

Therefore, it will be found that although it is close to the water source, the country allocates money to build canals every year, but there is no water, and the fields are short of water, and then the farmers are forced to carry water by themselves. The production of field plants decreases, and then the country's taxes cannot be paid, and then a vicious circle continues until the field is sold...

  It is close to the water source but lacks water, which is actually the reason.

   As for the whole world, who can be blamed for the inability to increase the output of fields?

  Those mud legs that stick their feet in the mud every day, will understand why the canals are old and broken, and why they are not repaired well?

  The emperor sitting on the throne will understand why the water conservancy fee is allocated every year, but the reason is either flood here or drought there every year?

   During the Han Dynasty, the main crops and vegetables were all ready, but there was a lack of spices, oil crops, high-volume crops, and cotton...

   It seems that at this time, cotton has been planted, because cotton still has seeds in Asia, India, Arabia...

   Long-staple cotton seems to be in America...

   Mother Earth is actually very fair, isn’t it? If you give a little to a place, you can improve technology anyway, but you don’t care about the specific progress...

   Africa seems to be used to store humans during the Great Ice Age, and then the migration path started after the glaciers receded...

   Human beings, mixed blood and migration, are the development boosters of civilization...

  (end of this chapter)